Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea: From Elemental Stirrings to Symbolic Inspiration, Language, and Life-Significance in Literary Interpretation and Theory

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Aesthetics of Nature in the Human Condition....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Death or Life of the Spirit: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ....Pages 23-44
The Waves of Life in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves ....Pages 45-56
On the Shores of Nothingness: Beckett’s Embers ....Pages 57-66
Ego Formation and the Land / Sea Metaphor in Conrad’s Secret Sharer ....Pages 67-76
Wordsworth: The Sea and Its Double....Pages 77-84
El Mistico Significado Del Mar (En El Lenguaje Poetico)....Pages 85-98
Between Land and Sea: The End of the Southern Sung....Pages 101-128
Hesiodic Fable and Weather Lore: Text and Context in Figurative Discourse ....Pages 129-138
The Response of Biblical Man to the Challenge of the Sea....Pages 139-148
The Sea as Metaphor: An Aspect of the Modern Japanese Novel....Pages 149-169
The Poetic and Elemental Language of the Sea....Pages 171-190
The Sea as Medium for Artistic Experience....Pages 191-201
Las Dimensiones Poéticas Del Mar Y La Idea Del Tiempo....Pages 203-212
The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the „Non-Savoir“....Pages 213-226
Figuring the Elements: Trope and Image in Shakespeare....Pages 227-243
Mirror Reflections: The Poetics of Water in French Baroque Poetry....Pages 245-260
The St. Lawrence in the Poetry of Gatien Lapointe....Pages 261-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
On the Brink: The Artist and the Sea....Pages 269-286
The Rapture of the Deep....Pages 287-297
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The Voices of Silence and Underwater Experience....Pages 299-307
A Contrast Between the Sea and the Mountain: A Comparative Study of Occidental and Chinese Poetic Symbolism....Pages 309-322
Literal/Littoral/Littorananima....Pages 325-342
Already Not-Yet: Shoreline Fiction Metaphase....Pages 343-351
Thalassic Regression: The Cipher of the Ocean in Gottfried Benn’s Poetry....Pages 353-366
Derrida and Husserl on the Status of Retention....Pages 367-381
Nonlogical Moves and Nature Metaphors....Pages 383-400
The Reading as Emotional Response....Pages 403-411
Literature and the Ladder of Discourse....Pages 413-431
The Sea in Faust and Goethe’s Verdict on His Hero....Pages 433-445
Front Matter....Pages 447-447
Preamble....Pages 449-450
What Makes Philosophical Literature Philosophical?....Pages 451-467
Kaelin on Philosophical Literature....Pages 469-475
The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism: Interpretation and Reality in James, Conrad, and Ford....Pages 477-499
Hermeneutics and History: A Response to Paul Armstrong....Pages 501-504
Back Matter....Pages 505-509